NPR Gives Favorable Review of SWTOR

The fact that NPR did this tells me that the cultural impact of video games is starting to be recognized.

Hmm...

Fox News!

Random gaming website/magazine kisses butt of EA in order to continue receiving interviews, commercial contracts and other boons from the said company.

More news at 11.

This AP review is also provided on hundreds of other news and blog websites. It's not produced or modified or commented on by NPR. It's one of thousands of AP pieces reprinted on NPR.

That and SWTOR has done the exact same thing WoW did and jumped from just the gamer genre and into the mainstream you now have the soccer moms and folks who usually don't play games playing TOR.....heck my sixty year old aunt is playing TOR; she is addicted to the story line and I keep hearing about more and more people who aren't really gamers playing..this is why TOR is the fastest growing MMO "ever"

It's also the fastest sub dropping MMO.

http://www.mmo-junkies.net/statistics

lol garbage numbers. has nothing to do with subscriptions.

I work in PR / journalism it doesn't work the way you can say one "bought" another.

It just works that way game publishers and reviewers float the same boat. Neither of them wants it to sink. Reviewer gets a first class flight to company HQ, "chills with cool dudes" and then writes what's expected of him.

It's not a bribe like let's say relations between restaraunts and critics. Everyone's just playing their roles. For example game publishers are interested in game magazines promoting an image of "cool and social gamer with spiky hair" etc etc

P.S. There are many examples of 10/10 reviews and then private blog posts of same reviewer along the lines of "I can't believe I played this ****"

De Nile river is seeing an unusually large population of biodrones. Scientists are stumped.

Yeah...that is really relevant I mean with all of their empirical evidence and all.

I can't quite figure folks who hate the game yet are still here supporting it financially just so they can hang out on the forums and spew negativity until they are banned..and when they get banned they run right out and buy another box...because people must know how fail the game is....

wouldn't you agree that is pretty pathetic?

It's really rude to call people names and to post non constructive comments on the forums.

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